1. On 7 April, GW ordered Butler to remain at Wyoming and to report all enemy depredations (see GW to Butler, 2 April, n.4).

2. In his 2 April letter to GW, Butler gave an account of recent Indian raids in the Wyoming Valley and reported the capture of three settlers on Fishing Creek. These prisoners escaped on 3 April near Tioga Point (now Athens, Pa.) and purportedly attacked their Indian captors with tomahawks: “The Indians made a desperate, but unavailing effort for the mastery, but were overpowered. … After scalping the dead, recovering the scalps of those of our people whom the Indians had slain, making a hasty raft, the party, taking the guns, tomahawks, spears, and blankets of the foe, descended the Susquehanna, and on the evening of the 5th of April arrived with their spoils in triumph at Wyoming” (History of Wyoming description begins History of Wyoming, In a Series of Letters, from Charles Miner, to His Son William Penn Miner, Esq. Philadelphia, 1845. description ends , 278–81).

3. The New-Jersey Gazette (Trenton) for 3 May reported a skirmish: “About the 17th ult. a party of Indians were discovered at Minisink, in Pennsylvania, and on Thursday following some of the Jersey militia passed the Delaware and engaged them; a very severe conflict ensued, which ended in a total defeat of the Indians.”

4. The orders from the Board of War to Butler have not been identified, but they may have pertained to Lt. Col. Ludwig Weltner’s request to the board on 9 April for reinforcements “to man the West Branch” of the Susquehanna River to deter Indian depredations (Pa. Archives description begins Samuel Hazard et al., eds. Pennsylvania Archives. 9 ser., 138 vols. Philadelphia and Harrisburg, 1852–1949. description ends , 1st ser., 8:171).

5. Capt. Anthony Selin commanded an independent company eventually incorporated into the German Battalion (see Weltner to GW, 16 May, and n.1 to that document; see also GW to the Board of War, 27 April).